TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2013 wrapped up in Berlin yesterday, but the show lives on in memory, and in video. Here’s a look at the companies that took part in our Hardware Alley exhibition, including some familiar to TechCrunch readers like Tado and Occipital Labs. Read More

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe was a hit. Thousands of attendees, founders, and venture capitalists from around the world filled Arena Berlin. Startups from more than 80 countries exhibited their wares. 15 startups launched in the first Startup Battlefield held in Europe and Lock8 won the $50,000 prize and Disrupt Cup.
Disrupt Europe was something special. It was alive. It was vibrant, energetic… Read More

ResearchGate’s Ijad Madisch’s lifelong ambition of winning a Nobel Prize for changing the way scientific research is undertaken piqued the interest of Valley investors several years ago.
Now with more than $35 million in funding from investors like Bill Gates, Benchmark, Founders Fund and Accel, he’s running one of Berlin’s flagship startups with 3 million scientists… Read More

Fifteen startups launched on the Disrupt Europe stage. From enterprise data companies to consumer electronics, the mix ably represented the best of Europe’s exploding startup scene. But Germany-based Lock8 won it all and will keep the Disrupt Cup here in Berlin.
If nothing else, Disrupt Europe was a great melting pot of entrepreneurial spirit. Startups from more than 80 countries… Read More

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, I got the chance to sit down with Benchmark’s Bill Gurley to talk about his recent investments, Uber’s amazing user growth, and why we are seeing so many huge, high-valuation funding rounds happening. It’s that last part that’s interesting, especially in light of all the big financing news we’re seeing. Read More

At TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin today, Box’s founder Aaron Levie took to the stage with CrunchFund’s Michael Arrington for a wide-ranging conversation that touched on everything from the early days of Box and who the next CEO of Microsoft should be all the way to the recent NSA revelations and their repercussions on cloud businesses.
As for the NSA, Levie said that –… Read More

The first ever TechCrunch Disrupt Europe is drawing to a close today, after two days of incredible speakers and a dramatic pitch-off competition, not to mention the two day Hackathon that preceded the show itself. Only one of the four finalists (Import.io, Lock8, Voicesphere and Asap54) can ultimately emerge victorious. Read More

We already knew that Chamath Palihapitiya, ex-Facebook executive, and founder and partner of The Social+Capital Partnership, was bullish on Bitcoins. But how bullish? He actually owns the equivalent of $5 million in Bitcoins, representing one of the largest positions in the world with the Winklevoss twins.
But that’s not all, Palihapitiya wants to own even more than that — up to… Read More

Sean Rad, founder and CEO of mobile dating app Tinder, offered his broader vision for the app and hinted at future features today at Disrupt Europe.
Rad acknowledged that the “unwritten context” of Tinder right now is romantic relationships, but he argued that the basic mechanism, where two people are only connected when they both express interest in each other, is “a… Read More